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ISSN No:-2456-2165
A Mobile Application Through Crop Yield is Predicted
using Data Mining Techniques
Thanushree C Harshitha .P
Department of Computer Science and Department of Computer Science and
Engineering Engineering
Jain University Jain University
Bangalore, India Bangalore, India
Abstract:- The economy of India is mainly dependent on
agriculture. Most of the people in India take up
agriculture as their occupation. India also suffers from
natural calamities like flood, drought are the main reasons
for the crop damage and huge loss to the farmers. So the
crop yield prediction in advance to harvest the farmers
will be benefited to make the planning appropriately with
the predicted results. The yield of the crop depends on the
major factors like weather, soil, water, nitrogen, soil
moisture, humidity, crop rotation, surface temperature
rain water etc. Predicting the crop yield deals with the
huge datasets along with lots of data analytics with are
applied on those datasets. Prediction of agriculture crop
yield is a job that requires the unification of knowledge
from several areas such as data mining. Using data mining
we extract knowledge of huge data using various
algorithms/techniques.
A huge data coming from different parameters
like weather, water, pH, temperature, soil quality etc are
required for crop yield prediction .Prediction of crop
yield is important for managing and storage of crops and
data mining also focuses upon methodologies used for
extracting the useful knowledge from data and there
various tools used for extracting knowledge from data.
But it is sad that farmers do not use any knowledge
discovery process approach for their crop yield data.
Data mining is also helpful in agriculture for decision
making. Our system aims at making farmers aware of
the crop yield prediction by using various data mining
techniques and the result of the prediction as a message
to his phone.
Keywords:- data mining, agriculture, prediction, mobile
application.
I. INTRODUCTION
India is the seventh largest country in the world and
it’s an agriculture based country where most of its population
derive their living and the source of income from the
agriculture itself. India is practicing agriculture since many
hundred years and it is the oldest countries to follow
agriculture even today. Due to globalization, the trends in the
agriculture are keep on changing .India is being ranked second
in the farm output worldwide. Most of the economy in India is
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dependent on agriculture. Agriculture also play an important
role in the development of socio-economic fabrication of India
and which is demographically a broad sector of income.
Agriculture supports the livelihood of about 58 per cent of
India’s population. Agriculture is the major contributor to
Indian economy as it is a main source of income as large
population of India depends on agriculture. Agriculture deals
with the business of crops and also depends on some factors.
Some of the factors on which the agriculture is dependent
upon are the type of soil, the climatic conditions, cultivation of
crop, temperature, fertilizers used, harvesting, irrigation,
pesticides which are used and other factors. Sometimes there
would also be a huge loss in agriculture due to the natural
calamities like drought, flood which would result in the loss of
crop production and loss to farmers. The large numbers of
farmers are committing suicide due to this reason and
sometimes there would also be a pest attack which will again
result in the loss. Annually, farmers face a loss of 40% in total
that is caused by either the damage of crops or the farmers
deprived of being paid the right price for their yield.
Therefore, this results in low productivity. The crop yield in
agriculture is measured of the degree of yield per unit area that
has been cultivated with the seeds that are produced from the
same cultivated crop. Predicting the crop yield immediately
after the cultivation will be helping the farmers and the
government bodies to decide for storage, the yield profit,
selling of crops, importing/exporting the crop. Government
has taken few steps and is providing the messages and the
information of the crop that is known as the agro vendor’s
information to farmers; also providing data related to soil
quality and the utility of the soil at each region. The yield that
is derived from the crop will be impacting directly on the
National and International economic sectors of the country on
annual basis and also plays an important and significant role in
the food management. There is need for agricultural
institutions that educate the farmers with short-term courses
and workshops, update them with latest technologies and
hoping to obtain better and effective results. Forecasting the
information of the crop before harvest is very useful for the
farmers for future activities. There are many researchers who
have developed statistical models for the yield of crop that
would suggest the pre-harvesting process and the crop yield
after harvesting. These industries use agriculture product as
chemicals, seeds, poultry, fertilizer, livestock, food animal
feed, raw material, pesticide, paper. The accurate estimation of
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crop production helps these companies to plan supply chain
decision in production. Till today by keeping only the
experience of the farmers was used, this included the random
count of number of seeds, buds that plants have. Based on
these the farmer would predict the crop yield. Now days there
are number of different applications emerging and the
technologies for the farmers to make their lives easier. The
information technology has become more and more part of
one’s daily life, which is helpful especially in the field of
agriculture. The Data mining is one of the processes of
discovering the previously unknown and the likely impressive
patterns in the large datasets. Therefore the Data Mining is the
process used for extracting information from the given set of
data and transforms it into a readable structure for further use
of data. Data Mining is a process used for discovering the
patterns in the large data sets which are involving methods at
which include the statistics , machine learning, artificial
intelligence and database systems. Finally the ultimate goal of
data mining is prediction - and predictive data mining is the
most common type of data mining and one that has the most
direct business applications. Data mining is the technique
which plays a vital role in the analysis of data. Data mining is
also computing process which is used for discovering patterns
in large data sets involving methods at the intersection of
artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, and
database system. Unsupervised (clustering) and supervised
(classifications) are two different types of learning methods
which are implemented in the data mining. Clustering is the
process of examining a collection of “data points,” and
grouping the data points into “clusters” according to some
distance measure.
II. RELEATED WORK
The survey consists of study of various
methodologies that were adopted to predict the crop yield.
In [1] using crop yield prediction system for
enhancing the yield for better decisions and planning which
can be planned out. They follow some step.
• Selecting the agriculture field: First for the crop yield
prediction we need to select the agriculture field.
• Selecting the crop: The crop which needs to be sown
should be selected.
• Input: Consider the climatic parameters like rainfall,
temperature, humidity and also some agronomical
variables like pesticides, nutrient contents N, P, K, and
soil etc. The parameters values will be taken as input.
• Pre-processing: It is nothing but noise removing process.
The data mining to be a successful application it requires
dataset which is huge. From the various resources the data
which is collected will be in raw form and that will cotain
some redundant, inconsistent, incomplete data. So here
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the redundant data will be removed. Finally that
redundant data will be normalized.
Feature Extraction: Here selection of attribute will
happen. It identifies and uses the relevant attribute from set of
data. The classifiers application processes the irrelevant and
redundant data and then those data will be removed.
In [2] it follows some methodology
• Dataset Collection: The dataset is gathered from
Madurai district and in soil testing lab it has been tested for
some specific attribute of soil. In addition to that some general
crop data is collected from online sources which are similar.
The crops considered may include cotton, groundnut, millet,
pulses, sorghum, sugarcane, coriander, vegetables, banana,
and paddy in this model. Texture, Depth, Drainage,
Permeability, soil colour, Ph, Water holding and Erosion are
the parameters considered. These above mentioned soil
parameters play an important role in extraction of soil
nutrients and water of crop’s ability. For the satisfactory
environment soil is must. The absorbed nutrients determine
the water holding capacity. To hold onto the nutrients soil
texture will affect the soil’s ability. The availability of soil
nutrients is affected by the acidity or alkalinity level which is
an important variable. The penetration of roots is determined
by water holding and drainage. For choosing a crop the
following reasons are considered for the stated parameters.
• Ensemble technique for crop prediction: Ensemble is
one of the models of data mining to gather greater efficiency
and prediction this model combines the multiple models
power than other model could alone achieve. This is also
called as the Method of Committee or Combiners Model. In
this system they use the ensemble technique called Majority
voting technique. Base learners can be at least two.
 Learners Used in the Model
 Random Tree
It is same as decision tree. But the difference is for
every split their will be random attribute subset is available.
Nominal and numerical data both can be built for random
trees. Randomly chosen attributes can be considered for each
node. The size of the subset can be specified by subset ratio
parameter.
 Chaid
It stands for Chi-squared Automatic Interaction
Detection. It is based upon adjusted significance testing which
is also a decision tree technique type. Chi-squared based
criterion is used in place of gain or information ratio. It has
many advantages which uses multi way splits that include
highly interpretable and visual results.
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 K-Nearest Neighbor C. System Design
For both classification and regression this can be
used. The cases available will be stored and new cases will be
classified according to similarity measure.

III. METHODOLOGY

A. Working Principle

• Gather the data related to the field.

• Compute the collected data with the database
• Communicate the data to the server along with
the necessary parameters like soil, climate etc.
• Get the result.
• Notification to the farmer about the yield prediction.

B. Work Flow

Login To The App Entering The Parameters

D. Exixting System
In existing systems there is no much technology used
for the detection or the prediction of the yield, based on the
previously collected data. This previously collected data will
include the several factors like soil, climate, rainfall and other
important features in that particular location. At present only
the type of the crop that can be grown in that particular area or
region is been told to the farmers and most the farmers fails to
go to the government bodies to take suggestions about the
Interfacing Db land, soil, and other climatic conditions that will be effecting
the growth of their crops in spite of all these facilities the
farmers fail to go because they find difficult to travel to far
place and no proper segments to support them therefore the
farmers will not have much knowledge about the crop yield in
advance.

Using Datamining Techniques
Final Yield Predicted
Fig 1:- The system work flow
E. Proposed System
The system that we are proposing here is the mobile
application where the farmers need to download the app on
their smart phone and enter the required details about their
field and the data related to the crop they grow and for how
much area along with the climatic conditions ,rainfall and
other necessary factors and all these data will be compared
with the previously noted data and are compared using various
data mining techniques then finally the compared results of
crop yield would be displayed on their smart phone.

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